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His mom suffered from Alzheimer's, and he donated her body to an Alzheimer's research center. A few days later, he received a small amount of cremains, reportedly of a hand. But he learned that, within hours of donating her body, it had been sold to the military.
Personally I don't care what happens to my body after I'm dead. And to be brutally honest, I am glad my parents were cremated because the idea of a body "a-moulderin' in the ground" sort of freaks me out.
It's terrible that he specifically marked a box on the form stating the body was not to be used in explosion research (or something to that effect), and that he thought her brain would be used for Alzheimer's research.
The woman will never know what happened to her body, but her son will, and it may very well be quite troubling for him to think about.
Yeah, it's gross. But she's passed and the body is now an empty shell. Trying to look on the positive side: at least some good may come of this in terms of managing injuries to our military folks from IEDs.
Interesting- I'd looked at donation when DH was terminally ill and the places that accepted donations specified that they couldn't accept "emaciated" bodies, presumably because they weren't good for research. His wouldn't have been accepted.
I agree that if there's a possibility that the military was going to use the body for blast testing it should be disclosed- I personally wouldn't care and I bet DH would have found it funny.
There's a "body farm" at a university in TN where they leave donated bodies out under various conditions to watch how they change, so that coroners can better determine time of death from remains that have been in place for days, weeks or years. It's all good, as long as you know what's going to be done with the body.
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